English 365 - SEM: STUDIES IN 19TH CENT LIT

Topics course. Victorians mourned and marked their dead with elegies and stone angels, novels and black ostrich plumes. This course studies the representation and commemoration of the dead in literature, art and social practice. Readings from poetry, fiction, theory and etiquette books, in the context of mourning attire from Smith's Historic Clothing Collection and a range of objects from other archives. Particular attention to ways in which grief intersected with Victorian discourses of gender, sexuality, race and class.

Topic: Victorian Mourning and Memorialization. Instructor permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores